Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb
Charles Lambwas an English writer and essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced with his sister, Mary Lamb...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth10 February 1775
walking-sticks literature crutches
Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.
How I like to be liked, and what I do to be liked!
hate men matter
I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.
men apples opinion
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
education teacher teaching
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.
children pride people
When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses, which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can possibly be in having them.
perfection matter pounds
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
men apples mind
A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.
way half world
The world meets nobody half way.
two water culinary
Brandy and water spoils two good things.
work mind prey
No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.
children husband cheer
How often you are irresistibly drawn to a plain, unassuming woman, whose soft silvery tones render her positively attractive! In the social circle, how pleasant it is to hear a woman talk in that low key which always characterizes the true lady. In the sanctuary of home, how such a voice soothes the fretful child and cheers the weary husband!
silence dumb apollo
The Muses were dumb while Apollo lectured.
christian business communication
What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with the simple altar-like structure and silent heart-language of the old sundials! It stood as the garden god of Christian gardens. Why is it almost everywhere vanished? If its business-use be superseded by more elaborate inventions, its moral uses, its beauty, might have pleaded for its continuance.